| Creator |
Barlow, J. engraver. |
| Contributor |
Rainsford, Marcus, fl. 1805 artist. |
| Title |
The mode of training blood hounds in St. Domingo and of exercising them by Chasseurs [graphic] / M. Rainsford del. ; J. Barlow
sculpt.
|
| Publisher |
London: Published as the Act directs by Jas. Gundee, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row |
| Publisher |
ENGLAND. London. 1805 |
| Date |
1805 |
| Physical Description |
1 print: engraving; overall 26 x 20 cm. (10.25 x 7.75 in) |
| Description |
Featuring a model of a black man and a Spanish Chasseur in typical dress, the engraving helps shows how Spanish colonizers
in St. Domingo trained blood-hounds to track and kill runaway slaves. As Rainsford explained, "With respect to the dogs their
general mode of rearing was latterly in the following manner. From the time of their being taken from the dam, they were confined
in a sort of kennel, or cage, where they were but sparingly fed upon small quantities of the blood of different animals. As
they approached maturity, their keepers procured a figure roughly formed as a negro in wicker work, in the body of which were
contained the blood and entails of beasts. This was exhibited before an upper part of the cage, and the food occasionally
exposed as a temptation, which attracted the attention of the dogs to it as a source of the food they wanted. This was repeated
often, so that the animals with rodoubled ferocity struggled against their confinement while in proportion to their impatience
the figure was brought nearer, though yet out of their reach, and their food decreased, till at the last extremity of desperation,
the keeper resigned the figure, well charged with the nauseous food before described, to their wishes. While they gorged themselves
with the dreadful met, he and his colleagues caressed and encouraged them. By these means the whites ingratiated themselves
so much with the animals, as to produce an effect directly opposite to that perceivable in them towards the black figure;
. . . ." (p. 426-27).
|
| Is part of |
Rainsford, Marcus, fl. 1805. Historical account of the black empire of Hayti. London: Albion press printed: published by James
Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, and sold by C. Chapple, Pall Mall, 1805.
|
| Notes |
Plate in Marcus Rainsford's Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: comprehending a view of the principal transactions
in the revolution of Saint Domingo; with its antient and modern state (London: Albion press printed: published by James Cundee,
Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row; and sold by C. Chapple, Pall Mall, 1805), p. 422.
|
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Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Haiti -- Pictorial works -- 19th century. |
|
Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Haiti. |
|
Hunting dogs. |
| Genre |
Engravings -- 1800-1810. |
|
Book illustrations -- 1800-1810. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1805 Rains 1416.Q p 422 |
| Accession number |
1416.Q |
